Lech Walesa Institute Foundation is looking for Dutch and British (including Northern Ireland) partners as well as other European countries interested in exploring a broadly understood European presidential heritage. For instance, the Netherlands is the ancestral home to the Roosevelts and van Burens, whose descendants became the Presidents of the United States. Several other US Presidents can trace their ancestors to England and Northern Ireland. Poland is the home of Lech Walesa. Our goal is to create a European Presidential Heritage Trail. Each research partner would focus on exploring their respective presidential heritage, which would then be compared and contrasted with research results of the other partners with a goal to find commonalities. Our research will integrate multi- and interdisciplinary approaches from genealogy, ethnography, political science, anthropology and focus on the questions of local/regional identity, perception, political thought, etc.
For further details, please contact Ms. Iwona Swiatczak-Wasilewska, email: [log in to unmask]
Lech Walesa Institute Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, www.ilw.org.pl
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